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LCA 2011: How to catch FOSS infringers out

"The phenomenal growth in the use of Linux in the
embedded market means that many people use and sell the kernel
without knowing they are doing so. Others are aware, but choose to
stay quiet, knowing that they are, in one way or another, not
keeping to the terms of the licence under which Linux is published.

"Individuals who want to obtain the source code for the embedded
device that they have bought are not able to sue because they are
not the primary copyright holder.

"But they can resort to other means to get the code. Brendan
Scott (pic below) , a Sydney-based lawyer, yesterday told an
audience at the 12th Australian national Linux conference how to
deal with the problem, in a talk titled "Issues of infringing open
source software".